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Further stakes for Showcasing

Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Showcasing has a leading contender for an international classic.His son Dice Roll has won the Gr.3 Prix Djebel (1400m) at Deauville, a key lead-up event to the Gr.1 French 2000 Guineas (1600m).It was Showcasing’s 25th stakes winner with Xpression, successful in this season’s Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1200m) at Trentham among his leading New Zealand representatives. She is part-owned by co-breeders Haunui Farm....

NZTBA Breeders' Bulletin Autumn 2018

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Service Fee Announcement / 2018

Waikato Stud has enjoyed another outstanding season with the progeny of their top-quality stallion roster again playing starring roles in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Heading the line-up is the champion sire Savabeel, who has produced five new Group One winners already in the 2017-18 term, including the New Zealand 2000 and 1000 Guineas double with Embellish and Hasahalo respectively, Kennedy Mile winner Shillelagh and New Zealand Oaks winner Savvy Coup. Savabeel is now the ...

A New Era for Cambridge Stud

Cambridge Stud enters an exciting new phase today with Brendan and Jo Lindsay officially taking over as owners of the iconic thoroughbred nursery. World-renowned for the champion stallions Sir Tristram and his son Zabeel, the nursery has forged an outstanding record as a breeding powerhouse under the direction of Sir Patrick and Justine Lady Hogan. Through the years, stallions on the Cambridge Stud roster have sired 134 individual Group One winners. The Lindsays have been actively involved in ...

Satono Aladdin to make deep impact at Rich Hill

A successful long-standing international partnership will again join forces in 2018 with Rich Hill Stud to stand the Group One-winning Japanese miler Satono Aladdin, a son of Shadai Stallion Station’s sire sensation Deep Impact.Rich Hill and Shadai first combined with the champion stallion Pentire and their ongoing association also includes breeding his son Prince Of Penzance, who won the 2015 Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m). The passing of Pentire late last year was the catalyst to stand anot...

Irish National Stud recipient Danielle Southey's second blog

Well can’t believe that 2 months is almost over it has gone so fast it feels like just the other day we were all getting settled down here. I have grown some really good friendships and we are all getting along like a big family. The end of February through to the beginning of March I was placed in Kildare and Black Cherry yard working with mares and foals. Storm Emma come through during the week and we had our fair share of snow with some drifts up to our waist. It was challenging getting aro...

Sunline Scholarship recipient David Morris's second blog from Newmarket

I have only a couple days left here at Cheveley Park, the last 8 weeks have gone very quickly and I enjoyed every minute of it. The staff here are an awesome group to be a part of -teaching me plenty of new skills and little tricks along the way. I would like thank them for everything they have done for me while at Cheveley Park. The weather has started to warm up a little bit, making it a little bit more comfortable to work in and the mares and foals are loving being outside. There have been so...

Hiyaam's Group One Success a New Zealand Breeders' windfall

Hiyaam’s impact at the highest level has delivered a massive windfall to a pair of New Zealand breeders. The Mick Price-trained daughter of High Chaparral produced a commanding performance at Rosehill on Saturday to win the Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) in the hands of former Kiwi apprentice Michael Dee. Raced by breeder Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, Hiyaam was raised at Brighthill Farm and is out of the Zabeel mare Mazarine, who is from the legendary Eight Carat family. “Chris C...

Savabeel leads the way

Five stallions covered more than 150 mares in the 2017 breeding season, with Waikato Stud stallion Savabeel serving the biggest book at 167, usurping Tavistock who served two fewer. The Cambridge Stud stallion had previously covered 191 mares in 2016, while in 2015 he covered 211 mares. Rich Hill Stud stallion Vadamos led the way for the new season sires, covering 159 mares in his debut season. Westbury Stud stallion Reliable Man once again covered a bumper book of 151 mares, while Highly Recomm...

Invitation to Te Aroha Race Day Saturday 7th April

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Champion Kiwi mare to visit War Front

Leviathan American owner and breeder Barbara Banke has revealed her mating plans for former champion New Zealand sprinter Bounding. Her Stonestreet Stables purchased the daughter of Lonhro for A$1.9 million in 2016 and Banke said she wanted to take full advantage of Bounding's speed, hence plans for the mare to visit Danzig’s son War Front. “We imported Bounding ahead of the 2016 Northern Hemisphere season and she is expecting her first foal by Curlin. Physically, she's flawless, a...

Power relocated to Queensland

Group One winner Power has been relocated from Cambridge Stud to Oaklands Stud in Queensland.The nine-year-old son of Oasis Dream’s leading representatives include the Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m) winner Gift Of Power and the Gr.3 Anglesey Stakes (1200m) winner and Group One performer Peace Envoy.Power was the leading first-season sire in New Zealand during the 2016-17 season....

Seabrook flying Kiwi flag in Slipper

An inspired purchase has New Zealand interest in the world’s richest two-year-old race centred on Seabrook. The Mick Price-trained filly goes into Saturday’s A$3.5 million Gr.1 Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill as a strong contender following her last-start win in the Gr.2 Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. The Kiwi-bred youngster is out of Don Eduardo’s unraced daughter Midnight Revels, who was purchased in foal to Hinchinbrook by Tauranga breeder Warwick Jeffries. “I bought the...

Obituary NZTBA Life Member Robin Archer

From the All Blacks to Sunline, a life of exceptional sporting achievement NZTBA Life Member William Roberts “Robin” Archer, who died in Auckland on 9 March 2018 aged 87, was successful in business, active in the community, and achieved fame in rugby and racing. Born in Invercargill and raised in Gore, Robin was a member of a notable Southland sporting family, and initially attracted attention as a member of the talented 1946-48 Gore High School First XV. That experience, combined with a s...

Waikato NZTBA member Joan Egan adds Group One to her breeding achievements

Waikato NZTBA branch member Joan Egan can now add breeding a group one winner to her list of achievements after Sword Of Osman (Savabeel-Bunyah[IRE]) won the prestigious Gr.1 Sistema Stakes at Ellerslie recently. A two-year-old son of Savabeel, and his 16th group one winner, Sword Of Osman was having only his fourth race day start when he scored in the 1200 metre Sistema Stakes. He won on debut at Manawatu in late December, before over racing to finish eight in the Karaka Million a month later.&...

Potential Melbourne Cup campaign for Kiwi mare

It has been nearly a decade since Rich Hill Stud stallion Shocking won the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) and this year he could have a contender in the race in the form of his Group One-winning daughter Fanatic. The Lindsay Park-trained mare once again showed her class over two miles when winning the Gr.2 Adelaide Cup on Monday and her camp believes she is a genuine star over that distance. Bred and owned by Taranaki dairy farmer Sean Kiernan, the five-year-old mare will now be set for the Gr.1 Syd...

Stallion’s future locked in at Highview

Wrote’s long-term New Zealand future is guaranteed following a successful move by Highview Stud. The Irish-bred stallion was well-received by breeders in his first season, prompting farm principal Brent Gillovic to purchase the son of High Chaparral outright. “After protracted negotiations we have managed to buy him outright,” he said. “We’ve bought him along with Peter Yip of the Hong Kong Breeders’ Club and Duncan Grimley, a good friend of mine in Australia.   “There will b...

Sunline Scholarship recipient David Morris's first blog from Cheveley Park Stud

Before I headed off on my journey I was very lucky to be apart of Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan’s last yearling draft and what a success that was, great results and a awesome farewell ceremony. A couple days later and I had started the long 36-hour trip to Newmarket where I was transported on a buggy from one terminal to another in New York to get my connecting flight on time. My first day at Cheveley I was very nervous but excited at the same time and was placed on Sandwich Stud, the yearling di...

Dream day at Ellerslie for prominent owner/breeder

Well known owner/breeder John Bromley had what he could only describe as a dream day on Saturday. While he couldn’t celebrate a victory at Ellerslie, Bromley still enjoyed a massive thrill with his two runners in Darscape Princess and Alinko Prince who were both competing at Group One level. Lightly raced Darci Brahma mare Darscape Princess put up a superb performance in her elite level debut as she stormed home to finish a gallant second in the Gr. 1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m). B...

Obituary NZTBA Life Member Jeanette Broome

The New Zealand thoroughbred breeding industry lost one of their quiet achievers this week with the passing of Jeanette Broome ONZM. Jeanette an original boutique breeder had the honour of breeding the winners of two of the most famous races in the world the 1991 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree with Seagram(Balak-Llanah) and the 1997 Melbourne Cup with Jezabeel (Zabeel-Passefleur), from a small band of carefully nurtured broodmares. Her breed also had success throughout Asia and in Austra...

Patience reaps rewards for Matamata breeders Mark and Cath Lupton on both sides of the Tasman

There is an old adage which says that good things come to those who wait - it’s wasted on millennials - but is something most breeders hang on to with anticipation. One such breeder who is reaping the rewards of patience is Matamata based Mark Lupton, who is now racing two up-and-coming mares, one he bred Etah James (Raise The Flag[GB]- Etah) and one he bought Yearn (Savabeel-Uno Princess). “You wait a lifetime to get one good horse and to get two of the buggers at once is pretty amazing,”...

Grunt spells ahead of lucrative spring

Talented three-year-old colt Grunt will now head to the spelling paddock in preparation for the spring after securing his first Group One win when victorious in the Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday. After placing behind Aloisia and Salsamor on debut as a two-year-old, Grunt has not been beaten in four subsequent starts.  The well-bred son of O’Reilly provided a preview of what was to come when winning the Gr.3 C.S. Hayes Stakes (1400m) a fortnight ago, and he has now p...

Danielle Southey's first blog from the Irish National Stud

This is Danielle’s first blog from The Irish National Stud There are 26 students with diverse backgrounds from Ireland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, USA, China, Japan, Australia and myself representing NZ  on this year’s Irish National Stud course.  We are doing weekly placements all over the stud so we are now into our third week. First week I was in the Black Cherry/Kildare Yard where we only had a few mares as the northern hemisphere stud season is only just getting under ...

Deloitte Report released but administrative impasse remains

Following months of waiting for a report on racing commissioned more than a year ago by New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing, an abridged version was finally released this week along with an edict to the industry’s racing clubs and stakeholders. The ‘Deloitte Report’ was compiled by the internationally renowned company of the same name which specialises in high-end accountancy and financial risk advice. It was commissioned to examine, review and comment on the current New Zealand Racing Board s...

Spanish Whisper does her owner breeders proud

Winning races is not something new to South Auckland based father and son Elias and Daniel Nakhle, but breeding a stakes winner is. The Nakhles along with Darren Brady, bred and raced the recent Gr.2 J Swap Contractors Matamata Breeders Stakes winner Spanish Whisper (Lope de Vega[IRE]-Cutting Remark[AUS]). “She didn’t really have a right to be there,” said Daniel Nakhle after she put up a huge fight to win the prestigious fillies’ event, “she is not a two-year-old type.” Spanish Whis...